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Re: [PLUG] RMS and GNU/sink (was: systrace is cool)
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I think RMS's argument is entirely invalid.
"tar' isn't all of userland. and GNU tar wasn't very usefull intil it had
a real kernal to run on. What's more, I could easily write TAR, CP, LS,
etc. I wouldn't try to write anything liek the linux kernal. We don't
have to use GNU ls, we could use BSD ls, or any other. What's more
userland's upper levals are what is making linux more popular, and those
are things like KDE and apache, mozilla, etc.
-- noah silva
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:13:41PM +0200, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > (Why doesn't rms care about people saying GNU/BSD?)
>
> Because BSD people are all too ready to brand anything that's GNU as
> such when we install it. There are a few basic GNU utilities that
> are part of the base system (notably tar, sort, compilation tools)
> of NetBSD, and they live in a different module on the CVS server
> (gnusrc, though checking out just src includes them).
>
> RMS's argument, and it's not a totally invalid one, is that all
> Linux distros around today should be referred to as GNU/Linux
> because Linux is "just" the kernel, whereas GNU has provided the
> entire userland. Obviously his code's more important, so it should
> come first. ;^>
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
>
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